Monday, March 31, 2014

The study aims to evaluate patient satisfaction with respect to primary health-care services in Kuwait.A total of 245 patients completed General Practice Assessment Questionnaire post consultation version 2.0. Two statistically significant differences of patients' satisfaction with sex and level of education were found. Overall satisfaction was higher among men than women (P = 0.002), and it was also higher among those with university degree of education than the other levels of education (P = 0.049). We also found statistically significant differences of patients' responses over sex for three themes, namely: satisfaction with receptionists, satisfaction with access and satisfaction with communication; and over the age for one theme: satisfaction with access. There was no statistically significant differences of patients' responses over nationality for all themes. Satisfaction is a multifactorial and no one factor alone could provide satisfaction with primary health services in Kuwait.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Failure! Nurses, what do you feel
when you think about failure? Inadequate? Unworthy? Unlovable? It is so sad
that you might have learned to link failure to your value as a person and as a
nurse.

Keep in mind that nursing is
all about attitude. It's how you view your failures as opportunities
to become a better nurse that will help you succeed. Most people who are
successful in their work and their relationships have experienced many failures
along their road to success. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric bulb,
is often quoted regarding failure:

"I have not failed. I've just
found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another
step forward."

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were
to success when they gave up."

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."

If Edison has been afraid of failure, or believed that failure meant he was
inadequate, he would never have invented the light bulb!

In order to achieve success in
any area of your nursing career, you need to redefine failure.
Instead of seeing failure as an indication of your inadequacy or lack of worth,
you need to see failure as a stepping-stone to success. Some of the most
financially successful people experienced repeated failures.

Walt Disney was a high school drop
out who suffered bankruptcy and repeated financial and business disasters.

Milton Hershey, chocolate maker and founder of the famous Hershey Foods Corp.,
found success only after filing for bankruptcy for his first four candy
companies.

Henry Ford filed for bankruptcy for
the first car company he started. He didn't succeed until he started his third
company, Ford Motor Company.

After P.T. Barnum, American showman,
went bankrupt, he joined forces with circus operator James A. Bailey to found
Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth.

Quaker Oats went bankrupt three
times, as did Wrigley from Wrigley's Gum. Pepsi-Cola went bankrupt twice. Other
famous companies that also went bankrupt are Birds Eye Frozen Foods, Borden's,
and Aunt Jemima.

Albert Einstein did poorly in
elementary school, and he failed his first college entrance exam at Zurich
Polytechnic.

Winston Churchill had a lifetime of
defeats and setbacks before becoming prime minister of England at age 62. All
of his greatest accomplishments and contributions came when he was a senior
citizen.

Sir Laurence Olivier, one of the
greatest actors of the 20th century, tripped over the door sill and fell
headfirst into the floodlights the very first time he had ever set foot on the
professional stage!

Woody Allen flunked motion picture
production at New York University and the City College of New York and failed
English at N.Y.U.

Astronaut Ed Gibson flunked first
and fourth grades.

Lucille Ball was once dismissed from
drama school for being too quiet and shy. (Source: http://www.joesabah.com/dseibert/008.htm)

If these successful people had been afraid of failure, they
would never have offered the world their talents. They were able to go on to
success because they saw failure as a learning opportunity rather than as an
indication of their inadequacy.

Are you ready to change your concept of failure, nurses?
Are you ready to let go of worrying about what failure says about you and just
learn from it? Are you ready to free your soul to do what you really want to do?

If the fear of failure is stopping
you from doing what you really want to do, I want to encourage you to change
your concept of failure. I want to encourage you to let go of your old way of
seeing failure and start to envision failures as learning nursing opportunities on
the way to success. Just as Thomas Edison did, I encourage you to see every
failure as a step forward!

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On May 12, the final day of National Nurses Week, we once
again will commemorate Florence Nightingale's birthday. It's a good time to
reflect on her attributes and attitudes and the actions she used to ignite the
evolution of nursing more than 150 years ago.

Nightingale was tough and outspoken. She was an excellent communicator,
persuasive and effective in making her point. She was well educated, socially
savvy, politically active and an adept networker. Nightingale was fiercely
passionate about her work and the value of nursing, and used the power of her
connections to move nursing forward. She didn't blame anyone for the social
barriers she encountered nor did she try to figure out why they existed. She
just broke through them and kept right on going. Nightingale did groundbreaking
research and revolutionized not just nursing care but healthcare as a whole.
She had vision, determination, confidence and a strong sense of self.

To keep the nursing profession strong, today's RNs must embody these traits.
Unfortunately, I hear some nurses complain that no one respects us, that we
don't have any power and that we are our own worst enemies. They focus on what
they perceive as nurses' and nursing's weaknesses. We need to stop complaining
and fully embrace Nightingale's qualities to make nursing a force with which to
be reckoned.

Why is this so important now? With inevitable healthcare reform, the Institute
of Medicine's report on nursing's future and the nation's changing demographics
and healthcare needs, nurses are poised to take on an even bigger and more
significant role in healthcare. This may be one of the greatest opportunities
we've ever had to be healthcare leaders.

It may seem daunting to be a force of change. Think of the great changers like
Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Nightingale. Change wasn't granted
to them; they grabbed it using their social and political skills, their passion
and their steadfast belief in their mission.

So what would happen if nurses dug down deep and tapped into our personal power
and strength? What if we channeled Nightingale and all of the other strong,
empowered, determined nurses who came before us such as Mary Breckinridge,
Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail, Clara Louise Maass, Luther Christman and Mary
Eliza Mahoney? They fought obstacles and prejudices, and in spite of great
odds, found ways to make remarkable strides and leave their marks on the world.
Each forged his or her own path to accomplish what needed to be done for the
greater good. This is our legacy. We owe it to our nursing predecessors and
ourselves to live up to their ideals.

Take this chance to revive the pioneering spirit of our nursing forebearers.
Create a new nursing reality with new roles and new healthcare models that will
generate a healthier future for the planet.

Let's use Nurses Week to channel Nightingale's power, passion and pride in
nursing and put it into practice. Look out world, here come the nurses!

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